Oh shit
Alex and I worked on the bike tonight. We did two things to start with , First was to replace the spedo mounts and the second was to remove the bag guards. We start with dissembling the screws that were being used to hold down the speedo. This was obviously a shade tree mechanic approach to mounting the speedo. To correct this we got new pegs, grommets, and clips. This project was all Alex. She took the old screws and grommets out then when she tried to put the new grommets in she had a hard time doing it. So we unscrewed the cable. This also gave us an opportunity to wipe it off. Alex got the new grommets in and, we reassembled the spedo and Alex got here first ever experience with “oh shit” clips (aka E clips). She tried for a while to get the first one snapped on using needle nose pliers but was not quite able to get it. After I showed her how she did get the other side. After all that she only lost one clip and now knows whey they have such a colorful name.
Next we went on to the bag guards. Because of the rust issues it took some creative use of screw drivers and wrenches to be able to get enough grip to turn the nuts off of the bolts. But we got them off and nobody got bit by the black widow that was living up in the fender.